Douglas Coupland describes in Lara's Book, dedicated to Lara
Croft, the heroin of the computer game Tomb Raider, how our dreams
become reality. In 1900, young people read the stories of Jules
Verne and fantasized of building airships and ultra-fast vehicles.
When they got older, of course, they built airplanes and cars. In
the thirties and forties, many young people were obsessed with
science fiction stories about space, space travel and rockets, so
when these young people grew up of course, they built the NASA
space program, satellite TV and jumbo jets.

In the fifties and sixties, young people read about robots,
government conspiracies, miniature James Bond-style espionage
contraptions and …